'Ye dames who braid your amber hair Cease for a time to smile or speak, C. KIRKPATRICK SHARPE'S Metrical Legends. PREFACE. THE EDITOR of this work has little to say in the way of preface. She has no claim to originality for the Superstitions, Customs, and Legends of the sister counties. Devonshire and Cornwall have, for the greater part, been collected from existing writings of local and other authorities; and her researches have been facilitated by a personal knowledge of many of the places described. She begs that indulgence may be extended to this her first venture in the literary world; and she offers her sincere acknowledgments for kind communications received from those whose names are herein recorded: The Rev. H. A. BAUMGARTNER, Vicar of Mevagissey. The Rev. R. BLACKMORE, Vicar of Merther. The Rev. F. W. COLLISON, Rector of Marwood. The Rev. SIDNEY W. CORNISH, Vicar of Ottery St. Mary. The Rev. W. F. H. EALES, Vicar of Yealmpton. |